Microsoft soap opera
A young journalist told me this week that Information & Communication Minister Sofyan Djalil once shown reporters the short message sent by Research Minister Kusmayanto Kardiman over the controversy surrounding a MoU between Indonesia government & Microsoft Corp regarding the use of legal software in government offices. "Let's continue this soap opera on Microsoft. You play the antagonist, and I'm playing the hero!" I have no chance to double check this to both ministers. If it's true, I could only regret, how come these ministers playing like that?
The soap opera or popular as sinetron in Indonesia is directed by President SBY. I'm not sure where he got the inspiration. But the opera started when SBY visited Redmond, WA, Microsoft's headquarter, two years ago (May 2005 to be exact). Bill Gates gave a lecture on what a country needs to do if it want to develop IT business. Impressed, SBY then offered Gates to be his advisor for IT development.
Early February 2005, Sofyan told a meeting that Gates would be the first man to enter Heaven's gates. It cost Sofyan lots of criticism and accused him of being an asslicker.
In early July, Kardiman met SBY in his private residence in Cikeas with Microsoft Indonesia's president Tony Chen & Darmono (president of Jababeka---I don't know in what capacity he was there except that he is close to SBY).
After the meeting Kardiman told press that Indonesia government would invite Bill Gates to visit Indonesia. One year later, Gates visited Vietnam and was greeted like a pop star with 7,000 students waited for hours, some clinging to trees and balconies, to get a glimpse of Mr Gates during his visit to the Hanoi university.
At home, things changed quickly in the last quarter of 2006. All of a sudden, Gates becomes common enemy for open source community when SBY administration signed a MoU with Microsoft to use legal softwares in government offices. Open source community accused government of taking sides with Microsoft and contrasting it with government's other plan to promote Indonesia Goes Open Source (IGOS). Since then, Kardiman claimed himself the champion of open source community while Sofyan who signed the MoU as Microsoft guy. Legislators jumped in the stage and rallied behind Kardiman.
I'm not the supporter of either Microsoft & open source. In fact, I love both. Since 2004 while in the State until now I use Mozilla Firefox at home (because too many spams) though I hate readers of this blog using Mozilla because they could easily copy the materials/contents (users with Explorer can't copy paste the informations published). At office I use Microsoft. Very much in contrast with Kardiman who admits that at home he uses Windows and at office with IGOS.
Back to the soap opera, I prefer to have both systems compete, co-exists. And I really can't understand why these ministers can't settle their differences inside the cabinet. But I do understand that the ending of a story is very much depend on the director, whether to provide a Hollywood happy ending or open ended.
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The soap opera or popular as sinetron in Indonesia is directed by President SBY. I'm not sure where he got the inspiration. But the opera started when SBY visited Redmond, WA, Microsoft's headquarter, two years ago (May 2005 to be exact). Bill Gates gave a lecture on what a country needs to do if it want to develop IT business. Impressed, SBY then offered Gates to be his advisor for IT development.
Early February 2005, Sofyan told a meeting that Gates would be the first man to enter Heaven's gates. It cost Sofyan lots of criticism and accused him of being an asslicker.
In early July, Kardiman met SBY in his private residence in Cikeas with Microsoft Indonesia's president Tony Chen & Darmono (president of Jababeka---I don't know in what capacity he was there except that he is close to SBY).
After the meeting Kardiman told press that Indonesia government would invite Bill Gates to visit Indonesia. One year later, Gates visited Vietnam and was greeted like a pop star with 7,000 students waited for hours, some clinging to trees and balconies, to get a glimpse of Mr Gates during his visit to the Hanoi university.
At home, things changed quickly in the last quarter of 2006. All of a sudden, Gates becomes common enemy for open source community when SBY administration signed a MoU with Microsoft to use legal softwares in government offices. Open source community accused government of taking sides with Microsoft and contrasting it with government's other plan to promote Indonesia Goes Open Source (IGOS). Since then, Kardiman claimed himself the champion of open source community while Sofyan who signed the MoU as Microsoft guy. Legislators jumped in the stage and rallied behind Kardiman.
I'm not the supporter of either Microsoft & open source. In fact, I love both. Since 2004 while in the State until now I use Mozilla Firefox at home (because too many spams) though I hate readers of this blog using Mozilla because they could easily copy the materials/contents (users with Explorer can't copy paste the informations published). At office I use Microsoft. Very much in contrast with Kardiman who admits that at home he uses Windows and at office with IGOS.
Back to the soap opera, I prefer to have both systems compete, co-exists. And I really can't understand why these ministers can't settle their differences inside the cabinet. But I do understand that the ending of a story is very much depend on the director, whether to provide a Hollywood happy ending or open ended.
READ MORE!!!
posted by yosef at 10:15 AM
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Speaking of which, Microsoft users can also pick up/steal the xml data on the Web via Web Query and by using VBA macro can do a live-update data on their spreadsheets. Automatically.
and here come rushuffle...
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